Teacher's Collections:

Here are some collections that you can learn Madarin Chinese through fun video clips and lessons developed by other people.

汉字动画
汉语拼音 (hàn yǔ pīn yīn)
中文歌曲 (zhōng wén gē qǔ)
迪斯尼动画 (dí sī ní dòng huà)
Introduction
外国人学中文




Student's Work:

1. Skit

2. Kao Kao Ni

Goals and Rationale: The purpose of this project is to evaluate student's knowledge of Mandarin pronunciation, Chinese character development and the key skill sets learned in Lesson One(Greetings) and Lesson Two (Family). This will be done by prioritizing skills and developing questions that will demonstrate those skills. By taking the test that designed by the classmates, students will also familiarize the key learning and challenges in other’s viewpoints. Based on what the students have learned so far, they will design a test paper of ten questions which are worth ten points. Students will use two different techniques when designing the paper, such as multiple choices, true/false, translation, matching, and/or filling in blanks.

3. Note-taking

Objectives: To promote the note-taking in Chinese study, and to explore different learning strategies by observing and improving note-taking skills.

4. Pinyin Song

Objectives: to be able to recite all the pinyin initials and finals in a fun way.

5. 学唱中文歌

Objectives: Learn and sing Chinese songs.

6. Online Poster

Objectives: Describe student's classmates (Level II) or their school lifes (Level III) through Chinese writing, self recording and video taping.

7. Learn Chinese Songs

Objectives: Develop the independent learning skills through web research, self-teaching, interpreting the lyrics and practices.

8. Study Chinese

Objectives: Share the Chinese learning experiences with others through multi-media.

9. The Way of Studying Chinese

Objectives: Share the learning strategies and understandings on Chinese grammar through multi-media.

10. Skit - 开学第一天

11. Dining Skit

Objectives: The purposes of this project are to practice and develop Chinese conversational skills through creative online collaborative writing and live performance. You are encouraged to maximize your imagination to create a skit based on the topic – Dining in a Chinese restaurant. The final product includes both live performance and an online poster on Glogster or Wiki.

12. Chinese Board Game

Objectives: The purpose of this project is to incorporate Chinese language learning points in a fun way through designing a Chinese board game.

13. Chinese Speech

Objectives: This 2-minute public speech project is to help students build more confidence in speaking Chinese and prepare them for the next level Chinese study. Students can choose anything as their speech topic.

14. Travel Plans

Objectives: The purposes of this project is to augment student's Chinese speaking ability in a recorded voice mail. Students will incorporate what they have learned from the units like weather, dining, transportation, renting a space, sports and travel and so on to create a "talking slides."

15. Storytelling

16. E-Portfolio

17. Online Presentation

Objectives: To demonstrate your ability in describing a photograph that is selected by the teacher, and relating your presentation to the Chinese culture.